Outback mayor laments Crazy Clarks closure

Longreach Mayor Joe Owens says he is hopeful another retailer will replace a discount store set to close its doors this week.

The owner of Crazy Clarks, DSG Holdings Australia, went into receivership earlier this month and administrators have now confirmed its stores in Longreach and Charleville will close this week.

Eight jobs will go in Charleville and 17 in Longreach.

Councillor Owens says it is a huge loss.

"Given the type of goods Crazy Clarks was selling, Longreach has had a few stores like that over the past 15-20 years where one will be in town for a fair while, close down and then another comes along and opens up, so with that in mind hopefully someone is out there that will come along and take up the gap," he said.

"Crazy Clarks was a shop that someone was always in there.

"It was a shop that everyone that came to town always went in there to see what sort of bargain they could get and having an empty shop in the middle of the main street in any town is not a good thing to have happen."